Comparisons of Brewer-Dobson circulations diagnosed from reanalyses

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 997-1006

  Iwasaki, Toshiki ^a   Hamada, Hisashi ^a   Miyazaki, Kazuyuki ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OVERTURN; PLANETARY WAVE; SEASONALITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 76349113845     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.87.997     Document Type: Article

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